As we enter the new millenium, the media research communities in the Nordic countries can look back on the first decades of attempts to bridge the gap between the social sciences and the humanities within the media field. A process of integration and cooperation has been started between scientists in the Nordic universities, and the emergence of a crossdisciplinary field has been reported to be...

Trut LN. 1999. Early canid domestication: the farm-fox experiment. American Scientist 87:160-169. Summary. In 1959, the Russian geneticist Dmitry K. Belyaev began studying the behavior of captive foxes at a fur farm. Interested in the process of domestication, he experimentally selected foxes on the basis of their reaction to humans. Individual foxes that responded with fear were removed from t...

Just as in mathematics, recursion theory and formal logic paradoxa can be used to derive incompleteness theorems, physical paradoxa can be applied for a derivation of constraints on the dynamics of physical systems and of certain types of no-go theorems. For example, time paradoxa can be used against the outcome controllability of entangled subsystems. As a consequence, the requirement of consi...

Over the last 30 years, the self-determination efforts and objectives of Indigenous peoples in Canada have increasingly been cast in the language of ‘recognition’ — recognition of cultural distinctiveness, recognition of an inherent right to selfgovernment, recognition of state treaty obligations, and so on. In addition, the last 15 years have witnessed a proliferation of theoretical work aimed...

With L band frequency allocations for satellite navigation getting more crowded, S band (2483.5-2500 MHz) is already allocated for navigation services, where Globalstar broadcasts downlink communications to user terminals. The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) is transmitting navigation signals and Galileo exploits some potential signals in S band. Also, several candidate S ba...

Modern homeopathy dwells in a nebulous and metaphysical realm into which few non-homeopathic doctors would venture; a very different world and speaking a language virtually incomprehensible to science. Fundamentally incompatible systems, their highly sophisticated conceptions of "disease" and "cure" are sufficiently divergent to prevent their peaceful coexistence. Can the best of modern scienti...

Adaptation of the whole microbial normal flora residing in a host to its natural habitat over an evolutionary peroid has resulted in peaceful coexistence with mutual benefits for both microbiota and host in steady state. This symbiotic relationship between host and microbiota has a significant impact on shaping the immune response in the host to achieve an immune tolerance to microbiota but ret...

South Africa, like most of its African neighbors, has a dual economy that sees formal and informal trading taking place side by side. Walking down many of the main streets of South African cities, one can immediately see the informal traders conducting their trade on the doorsteps of established retailers. Many of the formal traders complain about the informal activity and its impact on their b...

A. W. A. BROWN It is now 21 years since DDT -resistant house flies were first discovered in northern Sweden, and since the report of Wilson and Gahan that a DDT -resistant strain could be produced by laboratory selection at Orlando. Although the resistance of the San Jose scale to lime-sulfur was detected by Melander in Washington state nearly 60 years ago, the resistance problem as we know it ...

Self hypnosis is a set of simple techniques which you can use to very quickly take yourself to a deeply relaxed state. This state in itself is wonderfully restful and invigorating and is akin to a peaceful meditative or 'alpha mind' state. In this state the busy conscious mind is in a quiet state of observation, and you can easily access both your subconscious and superconscious mind. You can a...